{"id":38180,"date":"2023-01-18T11:44:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38180"},"modified":"2023-02-03T20:07:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T01:07:32","slug":"reading-twitter-and-mastodon-in-netnewswire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/18\/reading-twitter-and-mastodon-in-netnewswire\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Twitter and Mastodon in NetNewsWire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, RSS feeds were part of Twitter, but those days have long since passed. Now you have to use either the Twitter features built into your RSS reader or use a specialized service like RSS.app<\/a>.<\/p>

As a NetNewsWire user, I set up its Twitter extension<\/a>, which uses my Twitter account’s credentials, to access these accounts’ timelines and present them to me as if they were any other RSS subscription.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

This is what I’m doing now<\/a>, and it works quite well, even showing avatar images. Of course, there’s no telling whether the API will keep working. Feedbin can do this<\/a>, too, though I find that it’s much slower to update with new tweets.<\/p>\n\n

NetNewsWire<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Though the UI doesn’t expose it (we should fix that, yes), you can subscribe to a Twitter list in NetNewsWire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I’m also using NetNewsWire for Mastodon. As with Twitter, what I like compared with a lot of the clients is that it works well for reading in batch mode. It doesn’t lose posts if I get behind or mess up the scroll position when loading more in the middle of the timeline. I also like having explicit read indicators.<\/p>\n\n

NetNewsWire doesn’t have an extension for Mastodon, and Mastodon doesn’t offer an RSS feed of your timeline<\/a>, so I subscribe to each user’s individual RSS feed. There’s also no Mastodon feed for mentions, but it has reliable e-mail notifications (unlike Twitter).<\/p>\n\n

All in all, I’m pleased to be able to follow multiple accounts for multiple services all in the same window. It works well on my iPhone, too. I never really liked reading RSS feeds on iOS, but it’s great with these short posts. I can quickly star the ones I want to do something with on my Mac, avoiding the slow, multi-tap process I had been using to share tweets to OmniFocus.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n